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SharePoint Active Directory User Groups won't show

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I have setup a standalone installation of Sharepoint 2010 for my small business. It is up and running and individual users from Active Directory seem to show up but not User Groups. I was hoping to add users to User Groups in Active Directory and then just
place the User Group for Site Access.

I created new OU's with User Groups inside and they are not showing up in SharePoint. Is there a setting to have these User Groups show up?

User Profile synchronization service allows you to bring together user and group information
between the external data stores (in your case Active directory) and the user profile store in SharePoint Server 2010.

You need to Configure Synchronization Settings page which allows you to manage the settings for profile synchronization of users and groups.

there is alot of configuration and you better consult with professional books .

Be careful profile synchronising to active directory is very delicate configuration. User profile
synchronization service application fails often and it hangs and the only way to restart is by using PowerShell.

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